Six Wheels In Germany

Since I visited Germany for the first time as an adult I have wanted to live there. Now is my chance!

On 1 April 2014 I moved to Kempen in Niederrhein, along with Alfie my recumbent trike. My new Versatile Velomobile, Penelope, joined me a few days later (she had been living in Holland). After a year and a half I bought a second Velomobile, Millie the Milan GT carbon. Penelope was sold a year later and I received a Quattrovelo, four-wheeled Velomobile, in February 2018.

I write regular blog posts which often fit into more than one category. However, all the posts about cycling whilst I’m in Germany will be listed here, grouped (loosely) by general subject.

Churches in Kreis Viersen

I set myself the challenge of visiting all the churches in the area where I am now living, called Viersen. Viersen is 563 km2 or 217 square miles and there appeared initially to be 112 churches or chapels. I was not including the wayside chapels in this total, only churches which have an actual service that people can attend. In the end there were actually 98 churches or chapels that were large enough to have services in – and I visited them all!

I plotted all the churches on a Google Map as red waypoints and as I visited them they became green stars.